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title: Using DevKit
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Plugin DevKit is an IntelliJ plugin that provides support for developing IntelliJ plugins using IntelliJ IDEA's
own build system. It provides its own SDK type and a set of actions for building plugins within the IDE.

In this section:

* [Setting Up a Development Environment](getting_started/setting_up_environment.md)
* [Check Out And Build Community Edition](basics/checkout_and_build_community.md)
* [Creating a Plugin Project](getting_started/creating_plugin_project.md)
* [Creating an Action](getting_started/creating_an_action.md)
* [Running and Debugging a Plugin](getting_started/running_and_debugging_a_plugin.md)
* [Deploying a Plugin](getting_started/deploying_plugin.md)
* [Publishing a plugin to plugin repository](getting_started/publishing_plugin.md)